Clothes-line.



T. REILLY.

CLOTHES LINE. APPucATloN FILED AuG.`4. 1914.

1,151,043. Patented Aug. 21,1915.

T I a @Mofa @wi/Wiessee THOMAS REILLY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-LINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 24C, 1915.

Application led August 4, 1914.. Serial No. 854,953.

To all fr0/0m t may concern.

Be it known that I, THOMAS REILLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Lines: and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

An object of thisinvention is to provide a means for drying clothes after having been washed, and is especially adapted for use in congested districts of a city by occupants of tenement and apartment houses having no yard room.

In the drawings herewith which are made a part of this application, Figure 1 is a plan view of my device. Fig. 2 is a. longitudinal sectional view.

In the detailed description numerals will be used to indicate the various parts, the same numeral being used to indicate the same part throughout the description.

1 represents the inner wall of a room, 2 the outer wall of the room, 3 a window in the wall L., and 4 an anchoring place for the end of the line usually the wall of an adjoining building, the space between the walls '2. and 4 being usually an area way or air well.

rIhe device consists of a continuous double line 5 extending from the wall 1 to the wall 4 except when the clothes supporting fralne (3 is interposed between the ends of the said double line, the said line 5 holding the frame G suspended between the anchoring means. A groovecl pulley block 7 is rmly secured to the anchoring wall 4 and through the said pulley the line 5 is passed to carry the frame from the room to the area space or the reverse. A hook 8 is firmly fixed on the inside wall of the room. A second grooved pulley 9 is used, through which thc end of the line 5 extending through the room is passed and through which it runs when the device is operated. The eye on the pulley block 9 is engaged by the hook S.

The frame consists of two head pieces 10 connected by a plurality of short lines, the length of said-lines being governed by the size of the room in which it is operated. The ends of the supporting line are firmly secured by any preferred means to the center of the head-pieces, and the lines connecting the head pieces are placed equiedstant from each other along the head-pieces a sulficient distance apart to aord air passages between the articles composing the wash. A slack line is attached to the under side of the head-pieces and allowed to hang suspended below the frame to support those articles in the wash which may be too long to pass out of the window without dragging on the sill thereof. Attached to the window frame is a hook 12 and on the supporting line are formed two loops 13 and 14 designed to engage the hook 12 at the option of the operator.

lhen in use the pulley 9 is engaged with the hook 8, the frame brought into the room by manipulating the lines and the clothes arranged on the lines thereof in the usual manner of securing a wash on a clothes line, when said frame is again carried outwardly through the window by means of the double line operating through the pulley 7, the operator pulling on the upper line. When the frame is clear of the window, it will be found that the loops 13 and 14 have reached the hook 12; and by manually engaging the loops with the hook 12 the load will be relieved from the pulley 9, thus enabling the operator to remove the pulley 9 from the hook S when it may be allowed tohang out of the window and out of the way until it is desired to take in the wash. After the frame has been run out through the window the clothes held up by the slack line may be released by shaking the line, forcing them to extend their full length for drying. When it is desired to take in the clothes the pulley 9 is restored to the hook S, the loops 13 and 14 released from the hook 12, when the frame can be brought to the window and the clothes removed without bringing them into the room, or the elongated articles may be rengaged with the slack line to support them above the window sill and the frame brought into the room and the wash removed therefrom. The frame can then be run out as before and left out of the way until required for use again, and the line removed from the room as before.

l/Vhat I claim and wish to secure by Letters Patent is:

A device of the character described, comprising endless supporting means, means for anchoring the supporting means on opposite sides of a window opening in a room, said supporting means including a clothes line device consisting of two head pieces connected by a plurality of parallel lines, a slack line mounted between said head pieces and traveling therewith through said Window opening adapted to support the loWer portions of clothes free of said Window opening While being carried therethrough, anchoring means in the Window opening and loops provided upon said supporting means adapted to be hooked over the anchoring' means in said Window opening sothat the end of said supporting means can bereleascd Copies `of this patent may be obtained for i i Witnesses said room. f

In testimonj7 whereof I have signed kmy naine to this speciication in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses. f

THOMAS REILLY.

HENRY GOELKEL, NICHOLAS Fi'rzsiMMoNs.

Washngton, D. C. .A 

